A 911 call released by police reveals Jovan Belcher's mother begging her son's dying girlfriend to stay alive moments after the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker shot her. All the while, the couple's infant daughter wails in the background.

Belcher already had fled to the Chiefs' practice facility when his mother, Cheryl Shepherd, called 911 on Saturday morning. A wounded 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins struggled to breathe on the bedroom floor of their home.

According to a report Tuesday in the The Kansas City Star, Belcher leaned over to say he was sorry and kissed Perkins on the forehead after shooting her.

More details continue to emerge in the aftermath of Saturday's events, which ended with the Chiefs linebacker taking his own life in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot as general manager Scott Pioli, head coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs looked on.

Police say the Chiefs had been providing counseling to Belcher and his girlfriend. Police Sgt. Richard Sharp told The Star that the couple had been arguing over relationship and financial issues for months and that the team had been "bending over backward" trying to help them.

Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Monday that Belcher's mother, who had been staying with the couple, was given temporary custody of the couple's daughter. But, he said, it was unclear Monday if the grandmother and baby were still in the Kansas City area or if they had returned to Belcher's home in West Babylon, N.Y. Perkins was from the Austin, Texas, area.